(The Sydney Morning Herald) – Artificial intelligence is being used in Australian fertility clinics to help choose which embryos should be transferred into patients, with the potential to be dehumanising for parents and babies, researchers say.

Allowing machine learning to make decisions about “who is brought into the world” without ethical oversight of its introduction could erode public trust in fertility clinics, say authors of an Australian paper that raises bioethical concerns.

Professor Catherine Mills, head of Monash University’s Reproduction in Society research group and one of the authors of the paper, said IVF patients and partners might not know if AI had been used to help select which of their embryos to use, or how algorithms were trained to make their choice. (Read More)